Jag är en kvinna 60+ från Skåne, som sytt, broderat och tecknat i hela mitt liv, men nu är det mest quilt som gäller på min fritid.
I´m a woman 60+ from the south of Sweden, who have been busy sewing, embroidering and drawing all my life, but now I have been caught by the quilt bug.

11/04/2012

U R Priceless

The new bloghop has begun and this time the first day of the hop is my day to present my cute coin purses. But first of all a big Swedish hug to Madame Samm and Katherine for hosting this priceless blog hop.

I must say that I have had some problems to get the purse frames in time to make my purses. I have first contacted a shop on Etsy from Portugal in September where I found some very cute frames. But the frames were not even shipped after a month and I didn´t get any contact with the shop owner in spite of several reminders. Then I had to buy from an other internet shop, as I couldn´t find any shop here in Sweden which had purse frames.

Finally I ordered frames from ebay, China and Etsy Great Britain, but in a slight different form that could fit the pattern designed by Madame Samm.

Two days ago the shop owner from Portugal contacted me and informed me that she had been on vacations and was very sorry. She returned my money and that´s the story with the first problems with my purses.

My big problem then was the decision of fabric. I can´t understand why this is always a very big problems as I have yards of fabric in my stash. But I think this is a problem that I share with thousands of quilters.

And then I had to reconstruct the pattern to fit my purse frames. I love freeze paper, I use it when I make templates and it is then so easy to iron it on the fabric. I reconstructed the templates on the freeze paper and voila there were my templates to fit my purse frames.

My first coin purse were made from fabric designed Loralie, I love her cute ladies

The first cute lady on one side

The second cute lady on the other side

Inside the first purse

My second choice of fabric was design from Laurel Birch. And as birds are my favorite pets and animals the motives were natural, some parrots of course.

One side of the purse

The other side

Inside the second purse

I have now presented you for my purses and now it is time for you to see and admire all the other purses of today

Go and visit and have fun looking at all the goodies from all the other participating ladies today

OH my! If all the purses continue to be as cute as yours - we are all in for a treat!! The "girls" are SO cute - and the parrots! Thanks for sharing - so sorry it was such a challenge to get the frames!!

well after some tough starts you certainly came up with some adorable bags. I love Loralie and Laurel Burch so your bags are a huge hit with me. And the openers you were finally able to get are perfect!

HI Britt-INger....your choices are lovely...very tiny...I bet they could fit into mine...love your fabric choices...and I am in the same boat as many..we all struggle with choosing that fabric...that will stand out..yours all did

Sorry to hear that you had problems with getting the frames. Oh, thank goodness that you were able to finally get some. And they are so sweet! Great job, reconstructing to fit the frames you got.

Blessings & Aloha!I am at our daughter, son in law, and grandbaby's home visiting, but wanted to stop by and check out the amazing coin purses! & I hope you are able to stop by Nov 9th when I post my coin purse post. :o)

I love your coin purses. I am sorry you had so much trouble. I LOVE the one with Lorelei's designs. I have to get some of her fabric and make some myself. You did a great job in spite of all the roadblocks.~a

Oh so adorable and you gave me a good idea because of have some Laurel Birch fabric that I couldn't figure out what to do with. Those purse frames are cute sorry you had so much trouble getting them. Should have tried Kelly at I Notion, she is great.

Beautiful fussy cutting the Laurel Burch pieces. I am one of her biggest fans. A loss to the art world when she passed, I am so glad to see her work in lots of places. My locally-owned pharmacy stocks her cards at a (relatively) reasonable price. And... I don't mind giving him my hard-earned dollars for her work.